Destination: Pakistan
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Wed, 26 Jul 2006 | By craigandsimon | Views [2124] | Comments [9]
The Karakoram Highway blasts its way through some of the world's largest mountains and snakes its way north from Islamabad to the Chinese border. It is a remarkable feat of Pakistani army engineering - arching along impossibly steep slopes, skirting ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
Tue, 14 Jul 2009 | By alpha_ | Views [137] | Comments [7]
For thoose interessed, everything is going perfect, i just don`t have the time ( and the internet connection ) to tell the all story right now... A lot will come soon ! All the best ! Antoine
Sat, 12 May 2007 | By mutt | Views [540] | Comments [6]
60km from the Afgahn border, at Peswar city. Historical city, Peswar was ground for some famous explorers, conquerors, and tyrans - Alexander the Great, Marco Polo, Genghis Khan, Timur, Bakur, and ME, Rodrigo The Stubborn. Peswar is famous for being ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Wed, 2 May 2007 | By mutt | Views [788] | Comments [5]
My last days in India were in Amritsar, 30km away from the Pakistane border. Amritsar is a a city known for it´s large Sikh population and it´s temple - Golden Temple. Incredible! The temple is a number of buildings surrounding this man-made pool where ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Mon, 1 Oct 2007 | By damonlk | Views [356] | Comments [3]
The twin cities of Islamabad/ Rawalpindi sit about 300 km northwest of Lahore on the edge of both the NWFP [North West Frontier Province, a rag tag collection of government control and autonomous tribal areas] and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan’s ... Read more >
Tags: on the road
Mon, 10 Sep 2007 | By damonlk | Views [275] | Comments [3]
Classes have not begun, but the curriculum has been planned, as much as possible, and the 120 odd students met Saturday morning at orientation. Much of the time was given over to insisting that the students not smoke in class, and that medical ... Read more >
Tags: markets
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 | By alpha_ | Views [182] | Comments [3] | Video
Pakistan/India Border Electrical ambiance... Frontiere Pakistano-Indienne. Ou Indo-Pakistanaise, comme ça pas de jaloux... Un peu electrique comme ambiance... Pour les francais, cette cérémonie a lieu tous les jours entre la frontiere Pakistanaise ... Read more >
Wed, 19 Dec 2007 | By damonlk | Views [512] | Comments [2]
Inside Bhatti Gate in the walled city, and just before the
remains of the red light district, is the Fakir Khana
Museum. Housed in a
traditional three story house, and built on the collection of gifts and
tributes paid to an advisor of Maharajah ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Tue, 19 Feb 2008 | By damonlk | Views [460] | Comments [2]
Two hours north west of Lahore, and half way to Gujranwala, is the town of Aminabad. Once prosperous, for the last 150 years it has been slipping into quiet obscurity. The decline began in the 19 th century with the realignment of the GT ... Read more >
Tags: culture
Mon, 8 Oct 2007 | By damonlk | Views [404] | Comments [2]
Pakistan held its Presidential elections on Saturday. While the results surprised few, Musharraf's ongoing constitutional ability to lead remains before the Supreme Court. It is not certain how much attention Musharraf will pay the lawyers - ... Read more >
Tags: people
Mon, 3 Sep 2007 | By damonlk | Views [319] | Comments [2]
And so ends the first week in Lahore. It’s coming to the end of summer, so the heat is slowly abating, or at least I am acclimatising after that sudden jump from Melbourne winter. Of course what remains – 30 degrees at 9am – is still enough ... Read more >
Tags: people
Mon, 5 Nov 2007 | By damonlk | Views [437] | Comments [1]
The Lahore Museum, the 'Wonder House', was full on Saturday. They tell me it's the time to visit, now that the sauna heat of summer has passed but before winter sets in. I continue to wonder how cold that season will be - the locals speak of it with ... Read more >
Tags: culture
Wed, 12 Dec 2007 | By damonlk | Views [408] | Comments [1]
Just past the Mayo Hospital is Landa bazaar. Or more precisely a Landa bazaar, as there is another further east running between Lahore Railway Station and the Delhi Gate of the old town. Both specialise in second hand clothes, much of it imported, ... Read more >
Tags: Shopping
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 | By damonlk | Views [367] | Comments [1]
We spent the weekend in the former princely state of Bahawalpur. Prior to Partition the British ruled much of the subcontinent through the agency of local rulers bearing varying degrees of autonomy, though never in the critical areas of foreign affairs ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Mon, 19 Nov 2007 | By damonlk | Views [325] | Comments [1]
The week has been fairly occupied with preparations for the
show next Monday at Alhamra Art Gallery. It is my first in Pakistan, and first
solo abroad. The etchings are from the last four years and are inspired by
people and places seen on my ... Read more >
Tags: culture
Thu, 31 Jul 2008 | By anuon2r | Views [301] | Comments [1]
I arrived in Karachi on Tueday morning. After a quite enjoyable flight over next to a Pakistani guy who thought I was 23, just because I said I just finished school :) nice! I look so young when I am traveling and tired, aparently... My aunt picked ... Read more >
Tags: first days in karachi
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 | By kokoricooo | Views [281] | Comments [1]
Sufism is the mystic way of Islam. I got introduced to it's magical music in Rajasthan, and I just fell in love with it. I am actually also tired of India, and i wanted to find my next destination . I was thinking about Burma, China, Pakistan and ... Read more >
Tags: The Planning Phase
Tue, 2 Oct 2007 | By rprip | Views [194] | Comments [1]
Oh, Pakistan....a distant memory now....a place we first had sheep cheese pie and yak bbq. Obviously my "I only eat chicken diet" has been put on hold for experimental purposes...and to not offend the hosts. When Kelly and I reflect on Pakistan ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 | By damonlk | Views [693]
Pakistan
is well known internationally for its cricket, turbulent politics, and key role
in the complex geostrategy of region. It also has a vigorous arts sector, and
contributes strongly to the art of South Asia,
of which the recent rise ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Tue, 4 Dec 2007 | By damonlk | Views [687]
Zoos can be unhappy places. Even at home, where money and
rendered concrete conspire to trick the viewer, though rarely the animals, into
believing the cage to be some semblance of native habitat.
This is true in part of Lahore Zoo;... Read more >
Tags: sightseeing
Mon, 24 Jul 2006 | By craigandsimon | Views [677]
So its time for us to get out of India and of to Pakistan but before we do there is one more pace to visit Amritser the home of the Golden Temple, this place beats the Taj hands down not only is it free to enter (Taj 750 rupees!!!) but there is free ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Mon, 12 Nov 2007 | By damonlk | Views [649]
Mehr goes to sitar lessons twice a week. She has been
playing for six months on an ivory inlaid instrument that was once a gift from
her father to her mother. The body, bulbous and chocolate brown, used to be a
pumpkin.
Tonight there ... Read more >
Tags: culture
Sun, 3 Feb 2008 | By damonlk | Views [523]
Just outside Lahore on the
road that once connected Delhi to Kabul, and across the floodplain of the now dry Ravi, are the twin tombs of Nur Jahan and her husband,
the Mughal Emperor Jehangir.
The road, though now sheared of its ... Read more >
Tags: culture
Sun, 1 Jul 2007 | By ye-travels | Views [476]
There is only one legal international border crossing between Pakistan and India and it sits in the Punjab province of each country (at partition Punjab was split in two). Its an easy trip from Delhi on a speedy day train or a slow night train at less ... Read more >
Tags: adventures
Mon, 29 Oct 2007 | By damonlk | Views [474]
We took the students drawing at Lahore Fort. This rambling array of palaces, courtyards, bath houses and mosques set in 42 acres of gardens seemed ideal for teaching perspective, and getting students out of the sterility of the basement drawing ... Read more >
Tags: culture
